StevenPinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, US, and the author of the best-sellers The Language Instinct and How The Mind Works.
In a 2008 essay highly critical of Dr. Kass's work on the Bush bioethics council, the Harvard psychologist StevenPinker questioned the value of dignity as a moral guide.
The most influential sprang up in the nineteen-eighties at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was popularized in books by StevenPinker and others in the nineteen-nineties, and has largely won over science reporters.